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词汇 motiveless
释义 motiveless
adjective
uk /ˈməʊ.tɪv.ləs/ us /ˈmoʊ.t̬ɪv.ləs/
without a motive: 无动机的;无目的的
an apparently motiveless murder一起看似没有动机的谋杀案
Synonym
unprovoked
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Useless and futile
adrift
aimless
aimlessly
aimlessness
airy-fairy
fruitless
fruitlessly
fruitlessness
futile
futilely
negation
no goodidiom
non-viable
nugatory
ornamental
unrealistic
unrealistically
unseriousness
until you are blue in the faceidiom
unviability

Examples of motiveless


motiveless
The purposeful regulation of behaviour becomes impossible, leading to erratic responses and motiveless wandering.
In short, what we might term motiveless bullying is not covered at all.
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The police and many other organisations are putting in a great deal of work to counter motiveless and mindless behaviour.
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Indeed, the crime was completely motiveless.
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Crime is motiveless, mindless and amoral.
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His was the perfect crime, undetected, unexplained, motiveless, unavenged.
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They should also examine the defendants background for any history of impulsive and motiveless violence.
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